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Your Legacy of Love: Realise the Gift in Goodbyeby Gemini Adams

In this Mom's Choice® Gold award-winning book, British Grief Expert, Gemini Adams, explains that our real "wealth" lies not in our Financial Assets,
but our Emotional Assets; the values, memories, lessons, voice, image, wisdom and affections that we can capture and share through a loving legacy.
Gemini's positive message will soothe and inspire moms, dads, and grandparents - even those most fearful of the inevitable - to spring into action, and
create this precious parting gift, a timeless memento that surviving loved ones will treasure forever.
After losing her Mom to cancer at a young age, Gemini discovered that a typical inheritance doesn't give surviving family, especially children,
the ongoing loving support they really need. She began asking: "If one of your parents died, what would you prefer: to inherit their money,
or a letter saying how much they loved you?" Over 90% expressed a wish for the loving letter.
In this book, Gemini gently explains how this purposeful activity, is not, as some might expect, a morbid task, but one that can bring incredible insight,
peace of mind, and healing, especially for those dealing with aging parents, a terminal illness or loss.

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The Complete Book of Wills, Estates & Trustsby Alexander A. Bove

This is an excellent guide to the process of creating a will, with well
written descriptions and well constructed examples. There is a lot of
information in this book that can either be read from cover to cover, or
subsequently used as a reference for specific issues. The book provides
clear explanations of legal terms and practices and many asset-saving
tips highlighted by entertaining and illustrative stories. Readers are
told how to: Make a will, Settle an estate, Make a claim against an
estate, Contest a will, Create a living trust, and Avoid probate and
taxes. This is the only legal guide readers will ever need to
ensure that their money and holdings remain in the family.

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The Family Fight: Planning to Avoid Itby Barry Fish, Les Kotzer

This book focuses on how to organize your affairs so that your family
will not be left confused and unprepared in the event of your unexpected
incapacity or death. It examines the careful thought that must be
devoted to the various components of your Will in order to avoid
fighting within your family after you die. Discussions regarding the
components of a Will extend to a number of issues including executors,
dealing with the personal items which you treasure, guardianship of your
young children and a number of other important matters.

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Beyond the Grave: The Right Way and the Wrong Way
of Leaving Money to Your Children (And Others)by Gerald M. Condon, Jeffrey L. Condon

This is one of the few guides that is based on years of case studies
from estate planning lawyers. It is not a "how to" guide. Instead,
the process of estate planning is made more tangible by using real
examples from real family situations. It touches on the emotional
aspects of what can go wrong when one has misplaced assumptions. The
number of examples alone is enough to make one think about the need to
be clear in one's plans. The book covers such possibilities as
"protecting" the inheritance from one's child's spouse, preventing
squabbles over inherited property, selecting trustees or guardians,
avoiding disputes between second spouses and children of one's first
marriage, leaving money for pets, etc. With good sense, humor, and
authority, the authors provide a thorough look at inheritance planning
with an eye toward maintaining good, stable family relations well after
the estate has been settled.

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Everything You Need to Know about Estate Planningby Kevin Wark

This book is focused on estate planning, how to organize finances, and
how to make the most of one's assets and protect them for one's
beneficiaries. The advice is likely to be taken by a person with sound
financial plans and goals today, and who is looking to extend this
financial astuteness beyond the grave. The information on financial
planning is quite comprehensive and is targeted at people with good
information on existing retirement and savings vehicles. Featuring
worksheets and a glossary of terms, Everything You Need to Know about
Estate Planning is an indispensable and painless guide to planning for
the future.

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The Canadian Guide to Will & Estate Planning:
Everything you need to know today to protect your wealth and your family
tomorrowby Douglas A Gray

A comprehensive, readable description of the Canadian estate planning
process. It clearly explains the importance of planning one's estate and
guides readers through the process of calculating one's assets. It has
excellent information on the structure of wills, power of attorneys and
living wills as well as an overview of the different types of trusts. A
significant portion of the book is devoted to estate planning, taxation,
probate, insurance and the most effective ways to protect one's assets
from the taxman. This book covers a number of specific Canadian issues
such as vacation properties and Canadian laws of small business and
farming. There are also a number of useful checklists, forms and sources
of information for easy reference.

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The Executor's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to
Settling an Estate for Personal Representatives, Administrators, and
Beneficiariesby Theodore E. Hughes, David Klein

An executor is a person appointed in a will to carry out the
instructions and wishes of the deceased. Often the tasks involved are
cumbersome, complicated, and time-consuming. This Handbook outlines the
duties and responsibilities of the executor and provides a walking tour
of the procedures that settle an estate. There is no skimping on the
basics here. The authors understand what a first-time executor needs to
know and present that information in plain English. Coverage includes a
thorough explanation of what an executor does, instruction on dealing
with the deceased's assets and liabilities, and advice on administering
probate. In addition to the competent, methodical text, they offer
tables of state income tax rates, intestacy laws, state-by-state probate
requirements, and executor's fees.

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What to Do When Someone Dies: A Legal, Financial &
Practical Guideby Milton Berry Scott

This book is a clear, concise guide to organizing personal and
financial affairs so those responsible will be able to handle all the
necessary details following a death with ease. This book will be useful
to anyone who is dealing with someone's estate and also to anyone who
wants to organize his or her own concerns to assist those who will take
care of them.

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Be Not Afraid: Overcoming The Fear Of Deathby Johann Christoph Arnold, Madeleine L'Engle

This book addresses fears that every person faces: fear of illness,
aging, death, and loss, fear of vulnerability, and fear of suffering. A
councilor who has worked with the dying for three decades, the author
knows that the biggest challenges in life are the ones that won't fit
the script, and which each of us therefore has to deal with in our own
unique way. Although the title of this book suggests that it is about
overcoming the fear of death, it is overwhelmingly about life and living
with joy and faith, no matter what meets us. Through a treasure trove of
personal stories that make the book near impossible to put down, "Be Not
Afraid" meets the age-old human fear of death head on, with a power and
intensity that leaves one changed. If you want a true guide for the rest
of your life, read this book.

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